Fouad Khan, ENV SCI Doctoral Student, Finalist of the European Greens Essay Contest "Women and Climate Change"
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Fouad Khan, 1st Year PhD Student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. His dissertation topic is “Scaling in Cities as an Indicator of Energy Consumption”
He was a finalist of the European Greens Essay Contest "Women and Climate Change"
Below is an abstract from his essay "Nani, Khidr and the Aesthetic Bias of the Universe - Why Gender Inclusion Matters" published in the book of Prize Winners and Finalists of the European Greens Essay Contest.
"The Eid-al-Adha I sacrificed a goat to Allah for the first time in my life, my grandma told me everything I ever needed to know about gender and climate change, in one sentence.
I was thirteen. The afternoon was scorched a dull gold and there was an air of celebration in the house. As I sat down to play monopoly with my cousins before lunch, grandma, or Nani as I called her, grabbed me by the arm, took me to a side, where nobody could hear us, lowered her face close to my ears and whispered words, that at the time, sounded little more than a meaningless fairytale spell to me."